{"id":6935,"date":"2020-02-09T01:16:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T08:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:34:12","slug":"government-maintained-private-caches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=6935","title":{"rendered":"Government-maintained private caches????"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was diddybopping around the internet and stumbled across this article from about six years ago<\/a>. Succinctly, a local government in Oregon was urging citizens to be prepared for earthquakes and\/or tsunami. Here’s where it gets interesting. It is urging citizens to create ‘caches’ for their families. The city will even sell you the fabulous 55-gallon ‘blue barrels’ to fill with supplies and provide a workshop to advise you on how to do it. So far so good, yes? Now, see where it goes off the rails…<\/p>\n

Each shipping container is loaded with three different types of supplies: family cache containers; medical, administrative, and support equipment; and tourist, employee and visitor kits. City emergency management personnel will open the containers in case of an emergency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The local government is also setting out shipping containers to be used as storage for all those personal caches. Or, put another way, you load up a 55-gallon drum with survival supplies and hand it to your local government to lock away in a cargo container so it’ll\u00a0 be available during a crisis … assuming the government lackey with the keys to the conex shows up and says its okay for you to get your stuff. Oh…and you pay the government a fee for yearly maintenance of your stuff. Because.<\/p>\n

What could possibly<\/strong> go wrong?<\/em><\/p>\n

The more cynical among you will opine that the local government just found a way to stockpile emergency supplies without having to pay for them.<\/p>\n

Good intentions, I’m sure….but I would much rather have a 55-gallon drum of supplies hidden somewhere where I can have constant access to it, and no one else knows about it, rather than put my gear in a cargo container with a hundred other strangers gear and hope the government will unlock the doors and let me have it in an emergency.<\/p>\n

I wonder if this program is still in effect or if it ever got off the ground………<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was diddybopping around the internet and stumbled across this article from about six years ago. Succinctly, a local government in Oregon was urging citizens to be prepared for earthquakes and\/or tsunami. Here’s where it gets interesting. It is urging … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[247,148],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cache","tag-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}